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Selections for Gowran – Sept. 19th 2026
2.06: MUMHAN – EW – (DECLAN MCDONOGH/JIM BOLGER) 2.41: CASTILIAN QUEEN (GARY CARROLL/GER LYONS) 3.15: ALBANY COUNTY (WAYNE LORDAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 3.50: CAUGHT YOU SLEEPING – EW – (BEN COEN/NOEL MEADE) 4.25: COLPE CROSS – EW – (SEAMIE HEFFERNAN/NATALIA LUPINI) 5.02: MOYASSR – EW – (SAM COEN/ADO MCGUINNESS) 5.37: RESPONSE FINALE (REESE HOLOHAN (7)/GAVIN CROMWELL)
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Selections for Navan – Sept. 19th 2026
1.07: IVATT – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.42: HOPEFUL HERO – EW – (ALAN O’SULLIVAN (5)/TOM HOGAN) 2.17: ANY CHANCE (CONOR STONE-WALSH/CIAN HUGHES) 2.52: PURE LOGIC – EW – (PADDY HANLON (5)/JOHN HANLON) 3.26: MOTHER SHIP – EW – (PADDY HANLON (5)/JOHN HANLON) 4.02: EMERALD ENIGMA (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.45: CAN HAPPEN – EW…
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A lot of ‘What ifs’ for one parish to ponder
KILBRIDE…0-21 NA FIANNA…1-15 (AET) VEGAS’S MEN WERE OUTSIDERS FOR SURVIVAL Sometimes, personally speaking, when confidence is a bit shot, it takes a bit of a boost from a perhaps unexpected source to keep the wheels turning. In this case, confirmation that reading and judgment of the local GAA scene is still fairly well on the…
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Selections for Dundalk – Sept. 18th 2026
5.25: FORCE NOIR (BEN COEN/ROBSON DI AGUIAR) 6.00: KINDACAN (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 6.30: THE BEAR TRAP – EW – (ADAM CAFFREY/ADRIAN MCGUINNESS) 7.00: STARFLOW – EW – (CONOR CUSACK (7)/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 7.30: CELTIC DRUID – EW – (SADHBH TORMEY (7)/TOM MCCOURT) 8.00: WHOSEYHEBESTBOY – EW – (BILLY LEE/DICK BRABAZON) 8.30: NUMANTIA (PADDY HARNETT (3)/DONNACHA…
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Selections for Downpatrick – Sept. 18th 2026
1.37: WORLD AS ONE (DAN KING/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.12: BEGGARS ROCK (KEVIN SEXTON/IAN DONOUGHUE) 2.47: JOHN DIXEN – EW – (SHANE O’CALLAGHAN (3)/PHILIP ROTHWELL) 3.22: INVINCIBLE OSCAR – EW – (SIMON TORRENS/NOEL KELLY) 3.57: GANGSTER GRANNY – EW – (SEAN FLANAGAN/COLM MCBRATNEY) 4.28: SEA OF DOUBT – EW – (CONOR STONE-WALSH/IAN DONOGHUE) 5.02: ANODANDAWINK (PETER SMITHERS…
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The place will certainly be painted red as Fleetwood nab plum draw
Some of you of similar vintage to myself might recall a television advert of a good while back went something along the lines of ‘Would Fleetwood wood, would Fleetwood’? You can be damn sure they would – have taken your hand off for the draw they have nabbed in the fourth round of the Carabao…
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Selections for Naas – Sept. 17th 2026
1.50: BLOOMING SALLY – EW – (ANDREW J. SLATTERY/ANDY SLATTERY) 2.22: SALT LAKE (DONOGH O’CONNOR/ROBSON DE AGUIAR) 2.52: NEW BOND STREET (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 3.22: SUMMER SENT YOU (BILLY LEE/KEN CONDON) 3.52: NANDOS ROYALE (REESE HOLOHAN (7)/GAVIN CROMWELL) 4.25: ELYATA (BILLY LEE/NOEL MEADE) 4.56: STAR GLORY (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 5.32: SOLDAT (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS)
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Meath nail great team goal with appointment of former King Cole
Take yourself back more than three decades. A different world. One which still hadn’t
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Selections for Clonmel – Sept. 16th 2026
4.00: SHANALA (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 4.35: READY TO MINGLE – EW – (REESE HOLOHAN (7)/MICHAEL O’CALLAGHAN) 5.05: CONCAIRE (BILLY LEE/RICHARD O’BRIEN) 5.35: AREANA – EW – (JESSICA O’GORMAN (7)/E & P HARTY) 6.10: CHOU CHOU – EW – (CONOR CUSACK (7)/EAMONN O’CONNELL) 6.43: HIGHWIND – EW – (JOEY SHERIDAN/WILLIE MULLINS) 7.13: HIGHLANDER ADDICT – EW…
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How strange the change from minor to major
Every time I feel like I am getting close to some form of peace with the GAA’s split season, something crops up to remind me again of how hideous and counterproductive it is. As one former Meath player put it to me over the weekend “Lads busting their guts training since January for three games…
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